I think you may have failed "how the world works". If you think a Congressman doesn't have HUGE sway for his district then you are quite naiive. He is supposed to be one of the biggest swinging dicks in Baltimore. If he can't get things moving, then my previous depiction of him as a moron is accurate.
Trump destroyed Baltimore. It's a well know fact among leftist intellectuals that Baltimore was a fucking Shangri-La prior to 2016. Cummings all teary eyed cause some illegal can't get a toothbrush while kids in his own district are starving, can't get a meal at home, being neglected, 5 year olds thrown out into the street for the gangbangers to raise, filth everywhere, fucking place is an open sewer, but he's now going to set the standards for federal detention centers? Fuck him.
I thought the standard practice in congress, specially among the left was to allocate pork, stuck/hidden way down in the fine print, for the co-authors of bills. If memory serves thats how they passed Obamacare, outright graft.
There is a problem with pork, but in a city like Baltimore, the problem is not just related to pork. They get a massive amount of funding for programs and projects that are really needed in the city, but then the local corruption pilfers the program to death. Ironically, all this discussion about what a shit-hole Baltimore is will probably end out benefiting the corrupt politicians and administrators. All the publicity about rats and slums will elevate their housing- for example- problems and so congress and hud will throw even more funds at it. That's just like giving Michael Moore a free ticket to an all-you-can-eat buffet. The locals will squander and pilfer the programs and parcel out contracts on a kickback basis. For Exhibit A, think no further than the last mayor they fired for corruption (and there have been many). She wrote some bullshit coloring books or children's book. Then worked her charm to convince one of the large local hospitals that if they wanted a contract with the city they might want to buy her childen's book for the kids in the hospital. Subsequently the hospital bought 500K worth of her books (with federal funds they had received) and there is no evidence they were ever printed. Yeh, that's Baltimore in a nutshell right there.
Trump is just setting up you libtards. It is just so easy. Get ready to hear I told you so a lot. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/elijah-cummings-irs-targeted-true-the-vote/ Hypocrite Elijah Cummings Conspired With IRS Corruption: New IRS emails released by a congressional panel show staff working for the Democratic ranking member communicated with the IRS multiple times in 2012 and 2013 about a voter-fraud prevention group. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said on CNN's "State of the Union" last year, "Based upon everything I've seen, the case is solved. And if it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on, to be frank with you." Of course he wanted to move on, for he had been working hand in glove with the IRS to target conservative groups and wanted the fact to remain a secret.
These are the 25 worst counties to live in, all are in the Red States and run by conservatives. 10 out of 25 are in Kentucky and not one tweet criticizing Rand Paul or Mitch McConnell. 25. Floyd County, Kentucky 24. Apache County, Arizona 23. Jackson County, Kentucky 22. Yazoo County, Mississippi 21. McKinley County, New Mexico 20. Martin County, Kentucky 19. Wilcox County, Alabama 18. Sunflower County, Mississippi 17. Mingo County, West Virginia 16. Knox County, Kentucky 15. Leflore County, Mississippi 14. Coahoma County, Mississippi 13. Phillips County, Arkansas 12. Union County, Florida 11. Madison Parish, Louisiana 10. Harlan County, Kentucky 9. Bell County, Kentucky 8. Leslie County, Kentucky 7. Breathitt County, Kentucky 6. Clay County, Kentucky 5. McCreary County, Kentucky 4. McDowell County, West Virginia 3. Holmes County, Mississippi 2. Todd County, South Dakota 1. Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...ties-ranked-poverty-life-expectancy/39163929/
You are in denial . . . . . Ever since they got married and his wife found out he was paying a prostitute for sex , Melania chose to sleep in a separate bedroom. Trump said so himself.